For some people, following Jesus can extol a great price.
For business owners, Christ-like love means you quote an honest price even when you know there isn’t any competition.
For employees, it means giving your employer your best effort even when it isn’t reciprocated.
For husbands, it means being ready to lay down your life even when you aren’t respected.
For wives, it means being willing to follow even when the direction isn’t what you would choose.
If you were a follower of Jesus in the first century, you could have been rejected by your family, fired from a job, imprisoned, or killed. But even in those circumstances, Jesus held out this promise:
“‘Truly I tell you,’ Jesus replied, ‘no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life’” (Mark 10:29,30).
Nobody can take away the eternal life that Jesus secured for you. But even in this life, there is a promise. Following Jesus puts you in the company of many other people who are following him too. So even if following Jesus means you lose something, you will gain much more through the multitude who follow Jesus with you.
